AVM. ELLIOTT & SONS’ GENERAL CATALOGUE FOR 1894. 
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POPPY SNOWDRIFT. 
POPPY. 
(PAPAVER.) 
Very showy, free blooming, old-fashioned flowers. 
Very effective in mixed borders. Hardy annuals. 
Per Pkt. 
Poppy, “ The Mikado.” (The new striped Japanese 
Poppy). Brilliant scarlet and white, fringed 
edges. ...10 
- L-aevigatum. Gorgeous. New Persian Poppy, 
deep scarlet, with black spots.15 
- Shirley. New hardy annuals, surprisingly beau¬ 
tiful shades of pale pink, rose and carmine to 
deepest crimson .15 
- New Hybrid Oriental, containing charming new 
colors, including blush pink, blotched purple, 
deep blood red, etc. Hardy perennial.20 
- Carnation-Flowered. Double mixed, 2 ft. 5 
- French. (Papaver Rhoeas). Ranunculus-flow¬ 
ered, double mixed, 2 ft. .6 
- Danebrog. Brilliant scarlet, each of the four 
petals being stamped with an ivory white spot..10 
- Umbrosum. Rich Vermillion, with a shining black 
spot on each petal. 10 
- Crimson King. Large double crimson flowers.. .10 
- Snowdrift. Beautiful double white. 10 
- Bracteatum. Very large orange scarlet flowers, 
averaging 5 inches in diameter. Perennial va¬ 
riety .10 
- English Scarlet. One of the commonest plants 
in Great Britain, being found growing wild 
there in field after field, producing the most 
gorgeous effect with its dazzling scarlet blooms. 10 
POTENTILLA. 
These are handsome herbaceous plants, and from their 
hardiness and showy character are exceedingly useful 
and ornamental ; they may be employed to advantage 
in filling up vacant nooks and corners; even in single 
plants, and in all situations, their neatness of foliage 
and long duration in bloom render them objects of 
desire. 
Potentilla, Double. Choice varieties mixed; 1 ft.25 
- Single. Finest mixed; lj ft ...10 
PHACELIA. 
Very fine new annual from California, blooms in about 
eight tveeks from time of sowing, showy and free- 
flowering ; common loam. 
Per Pkt. 
Phacelia Campanularia. Beautiful rich deep blue, 6 
inches high.10 
POLEMONIUM. 
(JACOB’S LADDER. 1 
Fine, hardy, herbaceous perennials, with large heads 
of flowers; excellent border plants. 
Polemonium. Mixed blue and white, 1 ft. 5 
POLYANTHUS. 
Splendid spring-flowering plants, either for pot culture 
or the open border. Iialf-hardy perennial. 
Polyanthus Mixed. (Primula elatior.) Fine border 
varieties, f ft.10 
- Splendid Mixed. Extra choice, J ft.25 
POLYCOLYMNA STUARTI. 
A very good everlasting, with white and yellow flowers; 
half-hardy annual, 14 ft... ..10 
PRIMULA SINENSIS. 
(CHINESE PRIMROSE.) 
One of the most useful kinds of plants, which should be 
grown by everyone who has a frame to spare for 
raising the seed, as they compensate for the slight 
trouble by producing abundant flowers during the 
winter months in the greenhouse or sitting-room. 
Our Primula seed has always borne the highest char¬ 
acter, and that now offered is, as usual, saved from 
the finest sorts of the best strains of English growth 
and cannot be surpassed. 
Primula Sinensis Fimbriata. Very choice mixed.50 
- - - Alba. Pure white .50 
- - - Rubra. Red, very fine.50 
-^- Fringed. Fern leaved, white.50 
- - - -- Crimson.50 
-Alba Magnifica (Williams’). Pure 
white, with a large, bright yellow eye, each 
petal being deeply and beautifully fringed; they 
are borne in large trusses well above the foliage. 
Original packets, each.50 
-Rubra Violacea. A remarkably fine 
plant of extremely robust habit, bearing flowers 
of an exceedingly peculiar violet-crimson shade. 
Sold only in sealed packets.. 50 
- - - Chiswick Red. The most brilliant 
crimson-scarlet Primula yet sent out; its habit 
is as robust as Alba Magnifica; the foliage is 
very finely cut, and a deep green color.50 
- - - Meteor. Plant of compact habit of 
growth, the leaves being deeply cut and of a 
dark reddish tinge, which gives the plant a most 
distinct appearance. The blooms are of good 
form and substance, and well fimbriated at the 
edges. Color an intense rich crimson, relieved 
by a bright yellow eye. Original packets, each.50 
-- - Magenta Queen. This splendid new 
variety is of compact habit of growth, very vig¬ 
orous and robust; the leaves are of a dark-green 
color. The blooms are very large, measuring 
upward of 2£ inches in diameter; they are of 
very good substance and a bright magenta 
color, with a small bright lemon eye...75 
- - - Village Maid. White, striped and 
spotted with carmine, very beautiful, finely 
fringed..50 
- - - Princess Louise. Splendid whiteflowcrs 
of gr.eat size and substance, and peculiar metallic 
luster of surface; very distinct. . .75 
- - Alba Plena. Double white.75 
- - - Rubra Plena. Double red.75 
- - - Finest Double Mixed.75 
